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CComboBox alignment

Hi!

I'm trying to right align text in a combo box. The checkbox in the properties doesnt seem to change anything at all.

Is it possible to change the alignment of the text?

mikeblas

You'll have to go owner-draw. The right-align style is for localized versions of Windows which support bidirectional languages.

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asavard

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Yet another dumb restriction!

Oh well!

Thanks
:)

mnewton022700

You can do this without using owner-draw.

In your dialog class you will need to get a pointer to the comboBox. You can use CWnd::GetDlgItem to do this.

Then use CWnd::ModifyStyleEx to change the justification.

CWnd * pComboBox = this->GetDlgItem(COMBOBOX_ID);

pComboBox->ModifyStyleEx(0,WS_EX_RIGHT);

This will right align all the text in the box.

mnewton022700

I have tested the code in my above comment and it works fine. I'm sure that MikeBlas is very seldom wrong, but I think on this occasion that he is.

I do not have a localised version of Windows.

I'm not going for points here, this is just fyi.

asavard

ASKER

I wish you were right mnewton, but for some reason you are not. I tried what you said above, text is still aligned on the left side of the box.

No biggie.

Thanks

mnewton022700

Very strange, it definitely works for me.

Oh well, whatever.